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  2. Enjoining good and forbidding wrong - Wikipedia

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    On the other hand, at least one Iranian Twelve Shia cleric (Seyyed Hassan Eslami Ardakani), has argued that there are Islamic precedents for denouncing intrusive efforts to forbid wrong as violations of Islamic law, [95] and that the category of Islamic norms (ādāb) developed by Ghazali for forbidding sin should include prohibitions on ...

  3. Eye for an eye - Wikipedia

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    In the law of the Hebrews, the "eye for eye" was to restrict compensation to the value of the loss. Thus, it might be better read 'only one eye for one eye'. [ 2] The idiomatic biblical phrase "an eye for an eye" in Exodus and Leviticus ( Hebrew: עין תחת עין, romanized : ayin tachat ayin) literally means 'an eye under/ (in place of) an ...

  4. Murphy's law - Wikipedia

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    Murphy's law [a] is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." In some formulations, it is extended to "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time."

  5. Three wise monkeys - Wikipedia

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    According to other accounts, the monkeys caused the Sanshi and Ten-Tei not to see, say or hear the bad deeds of a person. The Sanshi (三尸) are the Three Corpses living in everyone's body. The Sanshi keep track of the good deeds and particularly the bad deeds of the person they inhabit.

  6. Mark Cuban, J.K. Rowling, Oprah: 31 quotes about luck (and ...

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    Tuesday, March 1: "No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you. [A]ll that matters in business is that ...

  7. Does staring at screens ruin your eyes? - AOL

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    We've all grown up thinking that sitting too close to the television is damaging to our eyes ... but that might not be the case. Technology spawns lots of confusion ... and a few affectionately ...

  8. Al-Qalam 51-52 - Wikipedia

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    The Verse of Evil Eye ( Arabic: آیه وَإِن يَكَادُ) is verses 51 and 52 of Al-Qalam ( Q68:51-52) in the Quran. It is usually recited for protection from the evil eye. It states: "And indeed, those who disbelieve would almost make you slip with their eyes when they hear the message, and they say: Indeed, he is mad.

  9. The Second Coming (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The poem was written in 1919 in the aftermath of the First World War [ 4] and the beginning of the Irish War of Independence in January 1919, which followed the Easter Rising in April 1916, and before the British government had decided to send in the Black and Tans to Ireland. Yeats used the phrase "the second birth" instead of "the Second ...